Presented by the UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance.
This concert highlights the distinguished musical legacy of late-Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), with an emphasis on madrigal settings composed by musicians associated with the Este court of Ferrara (Italy), where Tasso spent a substantial part of his career. The concert is inspired by Prof. Ricciardi’s Tasso in Music Project (https://www.tassomusic.org), an NEH-funded digital edition of the early modern settings of Torquato Tasso’s poetry. It is also a sequel to the Tasso and Music Symposium and Concerts (https://www.umass.edu/music/tasso-and-music-symposium-concerts), hosted by UMass in April 2020, which convened music historians, literary scholars, and performers from North America and Europe to offer new perspectives on Tasso and the music of his time. The concert has been made possible thanks to generous funding from the Department of Music and Dance and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass.
PERFORMERS
La Compagnia del Madrigale (http://www.lacompagniadelmadrigale.com/en/home-en/)
Rossana Bertini and Francesca Cassinari, soprani; Elena Carzaniga, contralto; Giuseppe Maletto and Raffaele Giordani, tenori; Matteo Bellotto, basso
Recorded on 25 April 2021 at the Confraternita dei santi Rocco e Sebastiano, Cumiana (Turin, Italy)
TASSO AT FERRARA
(pdf program: https://www.umass.edu/music/sites/default/files/assets/music/tasso_at_ferrara_-_concert_program.pdf)
RIME
Lodovico Agostini, “Tra Giove in cielo,” III a 6 (1582)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0707a
03:35
Luzzasco Luzzaschi, “Geloso amante,” II a 5 (1576)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0099a
08:25
Carlo Gesualdo, “Gelo ha Madonna il seno,” I a 5 (1594)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0333i
10:52
Luca Marenzio, “O verdi selve,” VI a 6 (1595)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0309a
14:21
Carlo Gesualdo, “Se taccio, il duol s’avanza,” II a 5 (1594)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0166g
16:18
Paolo Virchi, “Felice primavera,” Il lauro verde, a 6 (1583)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Trm0196a
LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA
19:45
Giaches de Wert, “Sovente, allor,” VIII a 5 (1586)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Tsg07019a
26:10
Luca Marenzio, “Giunto a la tomba,” IV a 5 (1584)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Tsg12096b
37:15
Claudio Monteverdi, “Vattene pur, crudel,” III a 5 (1592)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Tsg16059a
46:01
Giaches de Wert, “Misera, non credea,” VIII a 5 (1586)
https://www.tassomusic.org/work/?id=Tsg19106a
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